Meet some of the women from the Rails community. Hear about their
experiences and what they have to say about how to bring more female
programmers into our already amazing community, as well as how to get
them more involved and active in it once they're here.
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Learn how to enjoy the benefits of test-driven development beyond just your Ruby on Rails code; JavaScript is code too, and it deserves tests! With the help of some handy plugins, Rails lets you test your unobtrusive JavaScript using tools such as Screw.Unit and Smoke. The tools and approach are library-agnostic; they work well with jQuery, Prototype, and others.
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This panel will present views on how to improve civic life, protect democracy and hold politicians accountable using Web 2.0 technology. The panelists will lay out the massive need for programmers to deploy their skills in reimagining government in a way that promotes transparency, collaboration and public participation.
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With 60 million users and 35 billion words, Scribd is where discussions happen in 140 million characters or less. Join one of the largest Ruby/Rails sites as we talk about the limitations of Ruby, Rails and interesting ways we're using Rack Middleware and Java to scale one of the fastest growing web properties in the world.
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President Obama has called for a new age of open and transparent government, and you can help usher it in.
Led by Sunlight Labs, this session will introduce you to open government projects by your fellow Rubyists, let you propose your own, then get out of your way and let you start hacking.
Sunlight Labs is part of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to transparent government.
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So maybe you're testing all the time. But, are you pairing all the time? The team from Hashrocket is, and we'd love to talk about it. Come debate the pro's and con's of pair programming. Already sold on pairing? Share your best practices with others.
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The Facebook game PackRat uses Ruby to handle over 12 million
page views a day. This session will hightlite some tricks and
techniques used to build and grow a profitable app. Topics include:
the promise and perils of relying on AWS, how scaling the database
tier nearly killed us, advanced caching strategies, and when The Big
Rewrite might actually be a good idea.
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In this talk we will explore the state of the art deployment options for large scale ruby web apps. Ruby web apps become ecosystems of many moving parts over time as they scale. We will outline a scalable architecture for configuring, building, maintaining and scaling the system as a cohesive whole. We will explore technologies like rabbitmq, chef, nanite and EY's new cloud hosting platform.
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Meet three CEO's who have each started a successful Rails-focused company. How did they start, what were the keys to success, what would they do differently? Whether you have started a company or are thinking about it, this will be interesting. Panel discussion and Q&A.
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Webhooks and Protocols (like Rack) are dumb. Like a socket, they work with anything that fits. We'll look at a whole class of problems that can be solved creatively with similar solutions. We will also look at some popular and successful real-world implementations.
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Discover how is possible to use parallel execution to batch process large amount of data, learn how to use queues to distribute workload and coordinate processes, increase the throughput on system with high latency. Have fun with EventMachine, AMQP, RabbitMQ and get rid of that every 5mins cronjob
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Join Rails Activists Matt Aimonetti, Ryan Bates, Gregg Pollack in a discussion of Rails Activism. If you have any ideas on how to encourage Rails adoption and improve our community we'd love to hear from you. Bring your thoughts, questions, and complaints and we'll figure out how to improve the Rails ecosystem together.
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Come get a technical overview of the Rails 3 work in progress with Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche, who have been working full-time on the project for several months. Learn about the new architecture of ActionController, ActionView, and how you're expected to plug in to it.
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Erector is a pure ruby Builder-like view framework that you can use instead of ERB, inspired by Markaby. In Erector all views are objects, not template files, which allows the full power of object-oriented programming (inheritance, modular decomposition, encapsulation) in views. Among other benefits, Erector allows for inherited layouts and auto-closing tags.
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Rails has excellent caching strategies for the server side but did you know typically 80% of a responses time is on network communication? This will be an exploration of all the dirty details of caching your app's personal bits in the client browser. We'll look at what Rails provides and what you can additionally do to reduce response times and load on your application with little effort.
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For all its hype, cloud computing really has introduced a potent new scaling mechanism for Rails apps, enabling your architecture to be as nimble and intelligent as your code itself. Yet there are hidden challenges and dangers for the would be cloud-jumper. In this case study, instead of hype, you'll hear the story of OtherInbox, a Rails app that scaled rapidly and cheaply (but not painlessly).
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One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to embed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the development of components that range from user authentication to a fully featured forum. In this talk, Yehuda and Carl will give an in-depth tutorial by building a CMS, creating a gem out of it, and integrating it into another app.
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